How to use Spanish upside-down question and exclamation marks

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Upside-down question (¿) and exclamation marks (¡) are unique to Spanish language. And the question of why there is an upside-down question mark in a sentence is commonly asked. Here in this lesson, we will learn when and how to use Spanish upside-down question and exclamation marks.

Upside-down question mark

When to use?

Inverted question and exclamation marks are punctuation marks. They are used to begin interrogative and exclamatory clauses or sentences respectively.

How to use?

While the ending marks are put along the baseline of a sentence, the inverted question and exclamation marks (¿ and ¡) descend below the line. They go at the beginning part of the question or exclamation, not at the beginning of the sentence if the two are different. So you can tell long before the end of a sentence whether you're dealing with a question when a sentence doesn't start with a question word.